9-year-old Samsung Galaxy S2 Gets Android 11
Samsung Galaxy S2, stylized as Galaxy S II, was launched in 2011 with Android 2.3 and was later upgraded to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. Over the years, the smartphone grew in popularity with the developers’ community, and for that sole reason, Android 11 has been unofficially made available for the handset.
Smartphone companies offer up to 3 years of software updates at most. Hence, the news that Galaxy S2 from 2011 can run Android 11 after nine years from its launch is pretty exciting, considering that Android 11 is yet to come on several flagship phones released this year.
The upgrade for Galaxy S2 comes as an unofficial port of LineageOS 18.1 courtesy of several XDA Senior Members such as rINanDO, ChronoMonochrome, and others. The ROM is compliant with Isolated Recovery (IsoRec). Hence, it can be directly flashed via Odin, a utility software used by Samsung internally. However, to successfully load the ROM, users will have to re-part